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the evil already done, but they are as decisive as could be expected. The affair of Pampeluna is continued by the papers of the south of Frame, though denied by . the Etoile of Mon day. Had the plot succeeded, it must have produced a great effect at the present moment. The Chamber of Deputies has been in a secret sitting on the Address since one o'clock. The discussion is ex 4 pected to be very animated. Several important amend ments are to be proposed to the Address drawn up by the Central Commission. The courier which brought the news from Madrid, left that city on the 20th instant. Ferdinand's Camarillo pre tend that they had agreed to the terms above stated before the declar a ti on o f France, or the message of the King of England, reached the Spanish capital. The French Ministry expect that the arrival of English troops will soon extinguish the rebellion in Portugal. I send you a eopy of the speech of Hyde de Nettville, one of the ultra-firebrands. It is remarkable, that with all the means of com munication by steam-boats possessed by this country, we are not in possession of any direct intelligence from Lisbon of a later date than the 10th inst. Neither the public service, nor private enterprise, has on this occasion overcome the difficulties presented by wind or weather to arrivals from any Portuguese ports ; and we are, m consequence, eight days behind the commu nications from Lisbon through the circuitous medium of the French Papers. We hope, however, we may infer from this circumstance, that no event of a very unfortunate character has occurred to the Constitutional Government, for, as it is known that a steam-boat would be in the Tagus some days ago, we conclude, that if circumstances of extraordinary importance had occurred, she would have been detached from any ser vice on which she was, about to be employed, for the Purpose of conveying early intelligence to our Govern ment of the actual state of affairs. The wind still re maining directly contrary to vessels coming into the Channel, we may still be kept in uncertainty for some days, uultss a steam-boat be sent home ; and, as the safety of this means of communication across the Bay of Biscay is now satisfactorily established, we trust that some regular plan of conveying the Lisbon Mails by steam-vessels will be shortly established. The inte rest which all classes of persons have taken in the events In Portugal, as well as the importance which it must, be of to the Government to possess early information, combine to render it most desirable that such a system of communication should be speedily adopted. After so long a continuation of Peace, any prospect of War naturally rouses the soldier to a consciousness of his importance to society : officers and men seem to tread the earth with a prouder step than they have done for some time past, and should their hopes of a war be r ea li ze d, we f ee l con fid en t th a t the British Army w . skew that they have not passed the interval in the Plains of Capua. Our Dover Correspondent informs us, that yester day morning three King's Messengers, charged with despatches from the Foreign Office, arrived there, and immediately proceeded for Calais. The departure of three Messengers together was a very unusual occur rence, and the circumstance created some sensation in Dover. A Foreign Courier landed there very early in th e morning ; he came in a galley from Boulogne. Our City Correspondent says, that by information received from Pans this morning, the differences are adjusted between Spain and Portugal, and that a Spanish Ambassador has set off to Lisbon ; that Spain sends 4,000 troops to the frontiers, to form a hue on the side. of Portugal to prevent any further aggression. The French Itentes were lower on Tues day evening, owing to some heavy sales being effected at Paris by some London speculators ; Three per Cents. 67. 90. The accounts from Madrid state, that all the con veuts on the frontiers have of late had a military ap pearance; in some they were busy making military accoutrements, in others casting ball and drilling the new recruits for the Portuguese insurgents. It is es timated that the clergy have subscribed eight millions of reels towards the Portuguese expedition. It is asserted that a Manifesto is in town, issued by the Royalists of Spain, declaring that if FERDINAND departs from his present system, he will be dethroned, 4114 that the INFANTADO shall succeed him. THE DUKE OF YORK• Th e precarious situation of His Royal Highness the Duke of YORK, continues to excite the deepest interest throughout the Metropolis. His MAJESTY had an affectionate interview with his Royal Highness yesterday afternoon, anti the Duchess of Gloucester has come to town for the pur- Pose of being with her Royal Brother. Up to a late hour this afternoon, no dispatches from Lisbon had reached his MAJESTY'S Government. THE FUNDS. CITY, (Tuts Day), Twelve o' Clod. The English Funds remain in a very tender state, and the most Ittld report, however unlikely to be true, has the effect of causing tlifie or fall; this morning Coned, opened at 801, looking rather irkvy, and they were soon after done at 793, but have recovered llt"e to 8 4, the present price ; India Bonds are 36 8 ; and Ex • °Raquer Bah, 1 7 19 pm. The Foreign House may almost as well be shut, fur there are scarcely any transactions in any of the different Funds • Mexican Bonds are 64 / ; Colombi an , 39i 4 ; ?Attu Cre quo t ed rather lower, being 36 8 ; Greek remain at 7 ; and Portuguese, 69 70 ; Spanish, 121 13. No new Ttotations are given of the price of Shares, and the whole of Nut Continue dull. Three per Cent. Consols for account, 801 ; India Bonds, se; 8 P r tt ; Exchequer Bills, 17 19 pm. e n P°4lloll r Ft) NDC—Brazilian, 60 2; Buenos Ayres, 60 ; Chilian, - " 8 ; Danish, 578 ; Colombian, 1824, 391 4 ; Mexican, 6 VP Cent., asi 4 ; Ditto, 6 per Cent., 641 1; Peruvian, 30 2 ; at tug 3 P uesa, 69 70 Greek 17 1; Russian, 84 1; Spanish, 12 1 . 1. a lmtt•—Anglo Mexican, 30 271 die. ; United Mexican, 8 7 4i le• ; Tlelpuxahua, 45 55 pm. ; Brazilian, 4 6 pm. ; Bolivar, 14 ' Put. Colo m bi an, 14 16 per share; Genera l Mining Assoei ""' d it. , par, pee Share. • Consol i Two o' Clod- Lv e been 80 buys an sellers, with no us of iwportunce tar th e l ast ti er o hours ; d Exchequer Bills b are iness 18 to prowinni. The l•oreign Funds Continue without any alteration; Portu 'fosse have been thwe at 70 ; G ree k, 124 18 ; M ex i can , 6 per ttat. Howls, ; awl C olombian, 84 a 4. THREE O' CL 0 CX. Canute for account, 79i 80. FOUR o'C LOCK—CLOSING PRICES. Consols -- Danish Bonds 58k 1)0 . for A 79 80 Greek Do. 1825 1% ti e• r uilisn Bonds Mexican Do. 1825, 641 tuenos Ayres De. Peruvian Do. Chilian Do Russian Do. 84.4- ~o , . _....... t' lumblan, 1824, 34 Spanish Do. 13i FATAL DUEL-DEATH OF MR. MC. We received this morning a letter from Dublin, announcing the death of Mr. Bate, the Irish Barrister, in a duel, under the fol lowing circumstances :—Mr. Brie was awaiting the arrival of the Cork mail at the coach-office, in Dublin, when intelligence was received that Mr. Hutchinson had cbtained a majority over Mr. Callaghan, the rival candidate for the city of Cork. Mr. Brie used some expressions which were deemed offensive by a Mr. Hayes, a cousin of Mr. Callaghan, who was present at the time—and a duel was the consequence, in which Mr. Brie was killed. A Coroner's Inquest was sitting on the body of the unfortunate gentleman when our Correspondent's letter was written. MANCHESTER-TUESDAY EVENING, DEC. 26. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) We have again had a very fair demand in our market for goods, and the appearance of trade generally is much more encouraging than it was some time since. Velveteens for exportation continue to be much sought after, and con siderable sales have been effected, and at prices something better than heretofore. We have also had a very steady enquiry from the country buyers, and we believe a good fair business has ,been done in prints, strong calicos, and shillings; we cannot, however, quote any improvement in prices. 'Water Twist of the first quality, from numbers ten to thirty-four, is still in good request and sells freely ; but for the second article of these numbers the deMand has been very limited. In Cotton there has been but little doing, and prices may be considered stationary. THE LATE MR. DENT. Much confusion has arisen in consequence of " Dent" being a name common in Cumberland and Westmorland. So fir from the late Mr. Dent being of the origin stated of late, he is sprung from , a highly respectable family seated near Appleby. His father, Mr. R. Dent, after being taken, at an early age, into partnership with the house of Child, became head partner of that Establishment, of which his son, the, late Mr. Dent, also was head partner for a number of years. His length of services in Parliament, his con tested elections, and his intimacy with all the most lead ing persons in the Empire, made him so well known as to render further comment unnecessary. _ _ It is not true that either the late Mr. Dent or his father received any legacy whatever froni the late Mr. Child. THE MASQUERADE. The first Masquerade for the season was given last night at the Argyll Rooms, and was distinguished beyond most others of the same class, by its varied assortment of characters. The scene it self is not strictly speaking congenial to an English, mind : there is too much of the " free and easy" about it ; too much of the off hand manner to suit the somewhat precise sobriety of our national sensibility; last night, however, nothing transpired either in the amusements or the disguises, that could shock even the starchest puritanism. In point of humour, the whole concern was English enough—that is to say, rather heavy than otherwise. There was, for instance, a Marquis de Chaves, the present no torious Portuguese Insurgent, who was dressed apparently with the strictest regard to orthodox costume but sport ed very few additional characteristics : indeed, his masked representative seemed to have drawn his notions of resemblance from the Morning Herald. Paul Pry—the eternal, tiresome, persevering Paul Pry_(to imitate Mr. Shiell's late exuberant deluge of epithets) was another anomalous compound of mildness and repose, when his original demanded the penetrating proper . ties of a Grand London Inquisitor. There was also a groupe of female Bacchanals, peaceable enough, as British Bacchanals should be ; and sober, as they should not be ; to say nothing of a Silenus so classically characteristic as to look a vex), model of gentlemanly temperature, instead of being in every respect the reverse. A Don Quixotic, short, thick, and rosy, accompanied by a Sancho so immoderately thin as to be almost invisible at the duelling distance of ten paces, gave exceedingly felicitous ideas of the original ; a couple of half-starred monks were equally faithful to probability, while an enlightened King Ferdinand preserved of course a miraculous resemblance to his liberal, gifted, and supernaturally civilized original. The en tertainments were closed—as in duty bound—by flowing bum pers of Mr. Charles Wright's ciampsigu•—.4.lmhedwaiisidow.limal.ll,....g as he hituserf - eal/i it, in a poetic puff, worthy of the Augustan age. Can praise go higher ; assuredly not ; we must therefore here close our notice, lest our minds, like Milton's, break down under " the mighty theme ;" or as Mr. Wordsworth beautifully, though unintelligibly, phrases it, " the exceeding subject." DRURY-LANE THEATRE. A new Melodrama, under the sanguinary baptismal appellative of the Murdered Guest, was very appropriately murdered last ►tight, for the first time, at this theatre. The subject is well known to the public, through the medium of that gowsipping little miscellany " Percy. Anecdotes," and turns upon the story of a gentleman who was found murdered at an inn, with the landlord (who, it appears, was innocent of the act, though not of the in tention) standing beside him. Accordingly we have a regular trial scene ; to wit, an indictment and conviction, at which a magistrate—he should have been a real Surrey one—presides with infinite credit to the quorum. Mr. Cooper was the murderer of the evening, Mrs. West, his " first love," and we hope his last, for however exemplary this Gentleman may be in more common-place charac ters, he is perfectly nauseating as a lover ; in the first place by being as stiff and unbending as the Hyde-park Achilles; and secondly, by indulging in the use of a thick black wig ; destruction to all sentiment, and thirdly by making use only of one arm (and that the wrong one), instead of dividing his favours equally be tween the two, with which it has pleased Nature to bless him. The rest of the characters were well supported, but the piece itself presenting but few opportunities; they had no chance of impressing themselves favourably on the audience. The house we were glad to perceive, was crowded. THE ARMY. Detaehments belonging to the 45th, 54th, and 63d Regiments of Infantry, are ordered to embark this morning, on board a steam vessel iu the river, fur Gravesend, on route to Chatham. A Detachment belonging to the 87th Regiment of Foot, is or dered to march this morning, from Westminster, for 'Windsor. The Depots of the 16th and 40th Regi►uents of Infantry, are under orders to march from the Tower. On Friday night last about sixty tubs of contraband spirits were run near Hove. One of the smugglers, we under stand, was wounded in the thumb ; but none of the party was killed, as stated in the Brighton Herald.--Brighton Paper. A field of barley was reaped last week at &afield, in the neighbourhood of Dundee ; a second crop after potatoes. It yielded a full average return; and the quality of the grain is good. —.Edinburgh Observer. Lately, as some men were employed in searching for stone on the road side, near Nupton's-green, in this county, in a ditch they found buried the remains of a man. The bones of the skeleton were perfect, but it is impossible to conjecture from what cause they were deposited there, unless the individual who once animated the decayed remains belonged to the gipsey tribe, and fell a victim to the violence of seine of his associates. The bones were carefully buried in the parish church-yard. Hereford Journal. - • COINERS.—We mentioned i n the SUN of Tues day last, the apprehension of three individuals, on a charge of being largely concerned in the man ufacture of counterfeit g old coin, We have now to state that by the perseverance of the officers employed on the occasion, five others, including one woman, have since been taken into custody. Three of the men were taken to gether, and lo employed us to prec l u de all hope of acquittal. On finding they w ere discovered, they mournfully shook hands, and exclaimed, "We ar e d ea d me n ;" but offered no resistance. The, officers still retain pe aaess i ou o f the premises from which the first covesy of the quanti ty party was taken, and have added conside rabl y to their original die cons°ifdebragadble7aom-outo ney:on"heaeleedheeinn tfhoeunfido,oriinnga. Instead of being con-n• fi ...; -• to old spurious silver coins of all de scriptions, and to a finished state,-and ready for eirculativ, packed in parceds, of ten „. and twenty p oun d s eac h. The dies and presses have since been inspected, a n d are f oun d to be of an ex t r aordinary superior description, and capable o f Producin with the assistan ce of three per s o ns , one t h ousan d pounds worth of base coin, wee kl y , taking gold an d s il ver i n an equal pro portion. No public ex amination of an y o f t h e pr i soners w i ll take place at presen t, 5 $ others, not yet in custody, are implicated, whom it may take some time to discover. Many of the circumstances connected with this case are of a very extraordinary nature, and when completed/ it will most likely be far superior to any discovery of the kind ever made in England. • COURT OF ALDERMEN.—(Tnis DAY.) VINTRY WARD. A► Special Court ofAldermen was held, at 12 o'clock, this day, at Guildhall, for the purpose of receiving the Report of a Com mittee, appointed to inquire into the propriety of swearing in Mr. Sheriff Winchester, as Alderman for Vintry Ward, against the election for which petitions were presented from the inhabitants of the Ward, and also from Mr. Wilde, the opponent of Mr. Sheriff Winchester. The Loan MAYOR presided, and was supported by the Re corder, the Common Sergeant, Mr. Sergeant Arabin, and an unusually full Board of Aldermen. It having been resolved by the Court, that Counsel should be heard in support of and against the Petitions, the Learned Gentle men in attendance were called in soon after twelve o'clock. We understand that the principal ground upon which Mr. Wilde opposes the return, is an objection founded on the supposed ineligibility of Mr. Winchester during his Shrievalty. Mr. Sergeant Wain, with whom was Mr. Poil.ocx, appeared for the Petitioners, and argued at great length against the return of Mr. Sheriff Winchester, which he contended was both illegal and informal. The learned Sergeant had not concluded until three o'clock, when the Court rose. Dr. Luslaington and Mr. Broderick are to be heard in support of Mr. Wilde 's petition ; Mr. Bolland and Mr. Law against all the petitioners, so that the arguments alone are likely to occupy several days. The question being one of an extremely novel character, has excited considerable interest. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDIIALL.—(Tars DST.) Arthur Campbell, 77 - itinerant mender of nintorellas, was brought up in the custody of Green, a watchman, charged by a person, named Richard Porter, who keeps a public house in Bishopsgate-street, with behaving in the most disorderly and im proper manner.—Fined fis. for being drunk. John Fetter alias Blackman, was brought up in custody of Green, the watchman, charged with an assault, by John Lyman, a constable of Bishopsgate Ward. Ordered to find bail. In consequence of the Lord Mayor having to attend the Court of Aldermen to-day, Mr. Alderman Smith intends to proceed with his Lordship's list, as well as his.own. BOW-STREET.—(TaIs DAT. ) A watchman who attends Bow-street, made a complaint against Bertha, the Covent-garden watch-house-keeper, fur re fusing to take a charge. On Tuesday night he was on duty in Bow-street, when attadked by about 40 persons, and beaten severely. Last night he saw one of the most active of the gang, attempted to secure him, and, with the assistance of his brother watchmen, took several who attempted to moue him to the watch-house.— Bartlett, however, would not take the tillage, sad complainant was so much beaten, that he left his coat, &c. in the watch house, and went off duty. Bartlett, however, threw quite a dif ferent light on the affair. He said the watchman was " mad drunk," and that they took his coat and staff from him in conse quence.—Case dismissed. HATTON-GARDEN.—(Mts DAY.) One Jerry Lynch, an athletic native of the Emerald Isle, was charged by about half a score of the watchmen of St. Andrews Holborn, with a mast violent assault on the general body, mos' of whose appearances bore testimony of the prowess of the prisot ner.—Ordered to find bail. -MARLBOROUGH-STREET—(Turs DAT.) John Philipot was charged by Clement, the officer, with being disorderly at the Argyle Rooms last night,—uot from the iu spiriting effects of Wright'. champaigne, but more probably from a very pardonable desire to get home.—Discharged. Coleman, a cabinet maker, was charged by one of the officers with an usault. ,Several witnesses who assisted in taking the prisoner to the watchhouve, proved that he kicked them, and otherwise behaved in a violent manner. Ordered to enter into reeogniunees, himself for 100/. and two sureties in 60/. cash. WORSHIP-STREET....-(Tina DAY.) A young man, the son of a respectable tradesman in the City, was brought before Mr. BENETT for re-examination, on a charge preferred against him on Monday, by a person named Ilainilton, of indecently assaulting him. An elderly respectable looking into ate ..wed.-abo-rebieeer- weer Welton, and that trill"at►. weak, that he was little better than an idiot. Several respectable tradesmen, intimately acquainted with the family, corroborated this statement.--Case dismissed.-.- The accuser, Hamilton, is a young man who some time ago ren dered himself conspicuous at the police offices, in conjunction with a person named Brooks, endeavouring to rival the famed informer Johnson. Their attempts, however, proved eminently unsuccessful. COTTON WOOL. LILT Q IMPORTS AND EILPOIIII. This year. (Same pe rind leet year. ZIPORTED. Bags. &c. Rags, are. Liverpool 47141arl 092,511* London C3lasgow 24,921 29,271 11 - Total exported in 1826 102,459. &c, ly this year. 13 2 : 4 4c. 63,178 HAY MARKETS.—(Tuts DAY.) (At per Load of 30 Trusses.) ST. JAMES'S. Lowland Meadow Hay.f3 10 to 4 10 Clover Hay £4 tOtoe 6 Upland Ditto Rye.grass Hay New Meadow Hay ~... 4 5 5 5 A limited supply, and a brit :trade, at Tuesday's priers. SMITHFIELD. Lowland Meadow Hayl3 sto 4 5 Clover Hay generally .f. 4 10 to $ 0 Upland Ditto ft ye.grass Hay New Meadow Hay .... 4 0 5 0 Wheat Ditto A moderately fair supply, and a steady trade, price as la►t quoted. Part of the waggon train passed through Chichester the latter part of last week, on its way to Portsmouth, with stores, said to be destined for Portugal. Our barracks are now completely empty.—Brighton Paper. A. house, recently erected at Houghton-le-Spring, belonging to Mr. F. Carr, painter, fell with a tremendous crash on Saturday week. There were four or five own at work at the inside at the time, who were fortunately extricated without injury. 72yn e Mercury. There have been transmitted from the Government stores in Edinburgh Castle to Calton of Glasgow, for the relief of the industrious poor, 200 pairs of trowsers, 200 pairs of gaiters, 200 pairs of socks, and 200 pairs of shoes. Sixty pairs of each of the above articles go to Gorbals and Bridgeton. ASTONISHING POWER OF A PYTHON OR BOA CONSTRICTOR.—Mr. Henry Wise, a mate in a China ship, says, that when at anchor on the coast of Ceylon, a Python slid along the cable and entered the mate's cabin. When perceived, some of the crew threw the noose of a rope round it, but it contrived to twine itself round a butt of water. By fixing the rope to a pulley, they with infinite difficulty disengaged it from the butt, yet not till it had so compressed it, that the hoops from the middle souk to the bottom. It was stabbed by the Captain, but not killed, and was preserved by Mr. Wise '7O days, and then died.—Bath Chronicle. LEGAL ANECDOTE.—During Lord Sidmouth's Administration, a striking instance occurred of that peculiar want of political integrity which has so often distinguished the conduct of the members of the same profession. Of course the Minister was beset, as his predecessors and successors have ever been, with abundance of hungry barristers. Upon this occasion there was one who, to more than ordinary political subservi ency , a dd e d, what he wished to be thought, a more than ordinary share of personal regard. The Minister's power was never considered very secure, and at length the united efforts of Mr. Pitt and Mr. Fox were ex pected to demolish the fragile edifice. Oar lawye r , on this OCCa.. sion, though pledged to his patron by every tie, could not resist the well-known reluctance of certain other vermin to continue in a falling house, and, to the astonishment of every one, he voted with the Opposition. The effort, however, fail e d ; and the Mi nister retain e d hi s pl ac e, and with it the power o f prov idi ng for the Bar. What w as to be done ? No time wee to be lost, and early the next morning the repentant rat was found i n the ante chamber of the Minister, cringing for an audience; which being granted, he, in the mos t fawning, suppliant manne r , ac k n owledged his error, attributing it to haste, to inconsideratene s s, &c., and humbly implored forgiveness. The Minister, w i t h a di g nity which those who remember him in the Chair of the House of Commons know how well he could assume, coldly i n f or med his quondam friend that his future vote was a matter of perfect indif ference, and, with a look of ineffable disdain, left the Learned Gentleman, for once. in a state of independence, but which, like that of "single blessedness," had no charms for one in the eager pursuit of wealth and distinction, at whatever sacrifice obtained, IMPOILTIID. FASIIIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. The KING arrived in town yesterday afternoon about three o'clock, from his Royal Lodge in Wind. sor Park. His MAJESTY proceeded to the resi dence of the Duke of Rutland, in Arlington -street, to pay a 'visit to the Duke of York. The ICING par took of a dejeune with his Royal Brother, and after remaining with the Royal Duke about two hours, left town, attended by the Lord Steward in his travelling chariot and four, with outriders, soon after five o'clock, on his return to Windsor. Prince Leopold is at present staying at Rome. Prince Esterhazy, the Austrian Ambassador, trans. acted business yesterday at the Office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The King is, we regret to say, still kept from visit ing Brighton by the illness of the Duke of York, whose health is in a very alarming state; and we would therefore suggest that in the present affliction of his Alajesty, it would be scarcely delicate to carry into effect the public illumination which was intended.— Several vans, loaded with the musical instruments of the Band, ar rived yesterday at the Pavilion, and the members of the Band will follow in about a week. The Vapour Bath at the Pavilion has been fitted up, and from the general activity which prevails among the household, we are persuaded many days will not elapse before the arrival of his Majesty.—Brighton Paper. The intended visit of his Royal Highnes s th e D u k e of York to Belvoir, is u n d ers t oo d t o he postponed for the pre sent.—Brighton Paper. It is in contemplation, we understand, to form a Yacht and Rowing Club at Brighton.—Brighton Paper. The Earl of Derby has arrived at his seat, the Oaks, where he will turn out a fine deer on Saturday next. A grand field is expected. LORD JOHN RUSSELL.--This noble advocate of sweeping Reform has been just returned for the borough of Ban don, on the nomination of the Duke of Devonshire. We do not know how his Lordship will reconcile with his consistency as an enemy of "rotten boroughs" (his own language), to get up in the House and call for a Reform of Parliament. The Managers of the King's Theatre, who seem at last to understand their true interest, propose to bring out, after the Schiava in Bagdad, the Secchia Rapita, a new tioruic opera of Schelli's. This piece, which has had great success in Italy, must not be confounded with the Secchia Rapita of Zin. garella, which is not, however, without merit.—Lt Fnret. The beuefits, if such they may be called, are going on at our theatre, and although every exertion appears to be made to attract company to the house—the reward is disappointment.— Briyhton Paper. Arthur Murphy, who had himself been on the stage, when asked what was Garrick's deportment, said, " No body can tell—the totallity of his acting came upon the mind, in all his characters, with so forcible an impression, that the audience felt too much to he capable of analysing his excellence." Mr. Whitty, of Axminster, has lately manufactured a splendid carpet, to be sent to the Grand Seignior, as a present Iron, his Majesty. It measures more than 400 square yards, and the rust is two guineas per yard.—Bath Chronicle. Cardinal Richelieu (says Abbe Brotier) knew well the resources of the great country he governed. He used to raw of it, France can raise six hundred thousand thot, and one hundred and fifty thousand horse, and be able to go to war with them hi a fortnight. An ingenious artist, named Wileocks, residing at Exeter, has, it is said, invented a self-acting pianoforte, well cal culated to serve for a family quadrille or country dance; so as to obviate the necessity of the best-tempered girl in the company losing her share of the amusement. We are glad to see that the Commissioners hare in last employed persons tcl, repair the foot pavement. It was not before it wanted, as it was not only unpleasant to walk upon, hut in sores parts dangerous.—Brighton Paper. A report is eirculated, at Perpignan. that a camp o 10,000 French troops wilOpiedily be formed in the Departmen of the Eastern Pyreeefei tte ,feeploi de I'otslouse. vessel *nwatt44l4.;be, the -Belmont, from D one ratii. , was off4loloool**4o4.4thipat. The applications for.Diseounts at the Bank, by the mercantile interest, are very numerous, private hanker' offering no facilities in this way. In the Stock Market, money is not worth more than about 3 per cent Such has been the mildness of the weather thus far, that spring flowers are in full blossom, such as Pulyanthusses, Heart's-ease, &c. The trees, some of them still preserve their leaves, and honey suckles have shot forth their new leaves to their full rise. The fields are as green as though it were the latter end of May, instead of December. This 11111 d have the desired effect of saving the scanty fodder of last summer, in a very great de gree.—Briyhitm Paper. A GOOD BOOK-KERPER.—A few evenings ago. some tradesmen met at Ward's Commercial Hotel, North Shields, to enjoy themselves after the fatigues of the day, amongst whom were a son of Hibernia (a knight of the last), and a Northumbrian (a bookbinder), who, it appears, had kept some volumes belonging to Crispin rather an unreasonable time. The bookbinder took up a newspaper, and amongst other thing s rea d, " A b oo k - k eeper wanted ;" on which Pat started upon his legs and exclaimed, "and sure, friend I)., I will recommend you to the situation as the beat book-keeper in Engla n d." On Saturday senniglit died Mr. Henry Baker, farmer, at Winfarthing, in the 25th year of his age. On Satur day last, his remains were interred in the church yard of that parish; and in snaking the grave the sexton discovered a very ancient memorial of some person deceased, but without inscription; longitu dinally, was raised upon it a pastoral staff, 'surmounted by a circular figure of a foot in diameter, on which was a saltyr, irradiated. The stone itself was wider at the head than the feet, the usual form for ecclesiastical persons, and was undoubtedly designed to commemorate some priest of that Church before the Reformation, and which bad probably laid there nearly 400 yearc_lt ury Paper. DUEL PREVENTED.--.A duel which was.fixed to take place this morning, between a gentleman prominent in Ca tholic affairs, and a near relation of Mr. Callaghan, candidate for Cork, was prevented, we understand, by the arrest of the parties yesterday, who were bound over to keep the }ware. The affair originated in some strong language applied by the Catholic gentle man to the conduct of Mr. Callaghan. This was resented by the relative of Mr. Callaghan, and a meeting was immediately deter mined on. Such are the on <tits en the subject._.Dublin Morn ing Register. OLD ENGLISH HOSPITALITY.--When thelate Marquis of Rockingham came of age, a great entertainment was provided at'Wentwortli Rouse, in Yorkshire, which consisted, among several other things, of the following, viz.:--11t) dishes of roast beef, 70 pies, 63 dishes of mutton, 48 horns, 65 dishes of lamb, 70 dishes of veal, 40 dishes of chickens, 104 dishes of fish; and the liquors drank on the occasion were-13 hogsheads of ale, 20 hogsheads of strong beer, 8 hogsheads of punch, and 4 hogsheads of wine. There were, besides, 8 hogs. heads of strong beer drank the next day, and 40 loads of wheat baked into bread and pies. There were upwards of 10,000 guests in the whole . —upwards of 3,000 of whom were entertained within the house. And after they had dined the victuals were carried out, into the booths for the populace, who had strong beer and ale, as mugs► as they pleased. Buonaparte, long before his defeat in Belgium, and his second compulsory abdication, had lost his former influ ence. He had wearied and impoverished France with eternal wars ; be had tired out the patience, and exhausted the attach. meat of his own Marshals and Generals. Count Rapp gives a striking instance of this feeling in his interesting memoirs. The conversation occurred at the commen cemen t o f th e f ata l attack on Russia, when Napoleon's power and ambition were at t h e i r he i ght and he aimed at supremacy, from th e T agus to t h e D n i eper,— "I had again the honour of supping with N a p o l eon , t h e King of Naples, and the Prince de Neuf c h a t e l. N apo l eon maintained silence for a long time. At length h e suddenly asked, h ow f ar it was from Dantsic to Cadiz ? 'Too far, Sire,' I replied. ' Al, ! I understand you, General,' said he, ' but we shall be further oil; a few months hence.' 'So much the worse,' I added, The King of Naples, and the Prince de Neufchatel, did not s peak a word. ' I see gentlemen,' said Napoleon, ' that you (to not wish for war. The King of Naples does no t lik e to leave his beautiful kingdom, Berthier wishes to hunt at G ros Bois, iod G enera l Rapp longs to be back to his sup er b h otel in polo ,' , I must confess,' I observed, ' Sire, that y our Majestyl. as “ not spoiled me, I know very little of the plea sures of the capital.' Murat and Berthier continued to observe profound silence. They seetned to . be piqued at something. After dinner they tail me I had done right to speak as I did to Nupokou." SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Only yesterday we thought it worth while to notice those dreams of the ultra-servile party at Madrid, Paris, and other points of Europe, which fed their imagine tions with the hope that England was now in a condi tion to be bearded with impunity. By a curious coin cidence, the next mail has brought us an illustration of the folly which we were just exposing, in a passage from the Allgemeirie Zeitung, where the editor speaks of the present crisis in P or t uguese affairs. This Ger man illumine begins by discovering, in one short sen tence, an extreme ignorance of fact, and a gross error of judgment. He tells us that "by the armed inter vention of Great Britain in the present internal dissen sions in Portugal, it cannot be denied that the titmice of war may he kindled in the Peninsula." Now it is pretty plain, as we conceive, that England has armed for any thing but to interned& in the " internal dis sensions" of Portugal ; having studiously disavowed all regard whatever to the civil broils of the Portuguese among themselves, and directed her power to the single end of repelling a foreign invasion. Nor is the Akgenreine Zeitung, •as it seems to us, more fortu nate in his opinions than in his facts. He represents the military interference of this country as likely to " kindle the flames of war in the Peninsula ;" whereas the flames having been already kindled by the monks of France and Spain, we defy the most ingeni. ous man living to suggest an expedient better calcu lated to put out the fire than this same prompt, and vigorous, and well-timed movement on the part of the British nation. But "it must be remembered," we are told, "that of all the countries of Europe, Great Britain perhaps more than any other, needs the pre serration of peace, as well t o h e al th e wounds which it has sustained in its finances by more than 20 years' war, as to gain time to conjure the storms of internal discord, especially in Ireland." All states, he it re collected by the Aligemeine Zeitung, can be consi dered as feeble or powerful only, first, in comparison with themselves at some former period ; or second, when they are compared with other communities. And is it now a question with any journalist who pretends to speculate on the history of the last thirty years,. whether England possesses now, in 1826, more or less capacity for supporting an extensive war than when she was forced into that of the French Re volution ? Look at the population of the United Kingdom, increased from 14,000,000 to more than 21,000,000 of men. To those who talk of the discontents of Ireland, we answer that a single vote of Parliament would allay at once all such dis contents as ,can affect the application of our military . power: and the enemies of British glory and great ness may assure themselves, that were a serious war to break out, the party (for it is no more) which re sists the claims of our Catholic countrymen, would seen he deprived of the influence which now enable , * them to flatter the envy and hatred of foreigners with hopes of our disunion as a people. For those, again, who argue from the debt of England, to the certain exhaustion of the country which sustains it, we say that our funded debt of 800,000,000/. hears 140 higher interest per cent. than when it amounted to only one-third of the money ; this proves that the credit of the Government is quite as good as in 1793,----far better than that of any other kingdom in the world ; for no where has a loan of 5,000,000/. been raised on terms at all comparable to those for which England has procured a credit of more than 800,000,000/. But this is of little sign& cation. Look a t th e genera l progress of the Empire in the materials -of wealth and power, sine* the beginning of the war in 1793. Her commerce trebled, her means of productive industry qua dimpled, her works of defence and of communication, by land and water, her concentration of available riches, bar immense acquisitions of exterior strength, which give her the keys of three qiierters of the Ivorld, and more espe cially the absolute command over all the direct maritime intercourse which can be carried on by the nations of the north, of central and southern Europe, whether through the road of the 'Mediterranean or• of the Atlantic, with Africa or with the e a stern h em i sp h ere. The fl eets of England were never so predominant as at the hour at which We now describe them, over those of every actual or pos sible rival. The elements, and frame, and spirit of the army never so well arrayed or constituted. Her arsenals are provided for more than ten years of war; but above all, and paramount, stands that strength, which consists in the just and defensive diameter of British policy, inspiring the great body of nations With confidence, and the members of their several Governments with respect. With whatever warmth of language those Englishmen whose duty and go nius lead them to conduct the discussions of our national interests, may happen to express their feeling of a public wrong, or their solicitude for a remedy, it may bring fo reigners into an unlucky predicament, if they venture on such grounds to build my hope of protitting by our appa rent quarrels with each other. In free countries, where opinion is the great mover of the commonwealth, it is un avoidable to paint grievances in strong colours, that they may catch the eye and fix the public attention ; but we re peat that the power which fancies that because Englisn men remonstrate boldly with their public timetiettaries, where they feel that some partial defect in the political system might be repaired, they will not, therefore, make common cause with their Government against the intru sions or designs of strangers, will find itself in a very un fortunate mistake, and exposed to perils which it would be wise to avoid by timely abstinence from provocation.— Times. Mr. Canning's speech, which begins by many even of its admirers to be c onsid ere d as little better than a mere flash in the pan, is fast acquiring its proper level ; and so short-lived is popular applause, that that which only a few days since was hailed with deafening cheers in the Senate, and with enthusiasm by the unreflecting part of the community, is now looked upon by many as a very puerile, and by others as a very mischievous and 'indiscreet production. Its very author has already disclaimed no small part of it ; and we are greatly rain* taken if the country will not very soon have occasion to rue the whole, as involving them in matters in which they have little or no concern, on behalf of those who will feel no grat i tu d e for the i nterest w hi c h we axe taking in th e i r a ff a i rs ; and 'all this at the price of a total disreg ar d o f our own and may domestic difficulties, which were much more wor thy of the attention of a B r iti s h Statesman. It is rumoured among those who pick up, perhaps a hnost be said to live upon, the on du . , of t h e day, that one of his colleagues has beau heard to say of this speech of M r . C ann i ng , t h at, the fervour of its d e li very , i t was very ZiPi!tead withl enla ted to entrap the applause of a number of young men just come from Eton ; but that taken to pikes, it amounts in fact to nothing . We do ne t vouch for the genuineness of thi s critic ism, though we are very much inclined to subscribe to its truth. 'To' Mr. Canning's classical mind it will convey the very sentiment contained in the well-known line of the Roman Satirist, and assigns t o hi s speech at) other merits but " Ut puede plum, et deelmatio SW' lut if this too celebrated harangue could be treated rarely as a matter of taste, we ehould gladly yield to ,s admirers any class f oweellonice which they may